EUROPEAN transport commissioner Mr Siim Kallas has called on the Baltic states to work together to make the standard-gauge Rail Baltic link between Estonia and Poland a reality, amid concerns that extra conditions being imposed by the Lithuanian government could delay the project.

THE European Investment Bank has agreed to lend Poland's largest railfreight operator PKP Cargo €47m to help finance the modernisation of its locomotive and wagon fleets.

THE first of 20 Swing 122NaSF low-floor LRVs being supplied by Pesa Bydgoszcz, Poland, to the city of Sofia arrived in the Bulgarian capital in the early hours of November 29.

GERMAN Rail (DB) subsidiary DB Regio has reached an agreement with Poland's Regional Railways (PR) to continue operating the cross-border RE 100 Dresden Wroclaw Express service.

POLAND's infrastructure manger PKP PLK has awarded a €41.5m contract to Kapsch CarrierCom and Torpol, Poland to install GSM-R radio communications on the main line linking Kunowice on the German border with Poznan, Warsaw and Terespol on the Belarus border.

POLISH rolling stock manufacturer Newag has announced plans to sell a 48.44% stake in the company through a flotation on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, which will begin on December 4.

WARSAW Tramways has secured a Zlotys 285m ($US 91.9m) grant from the European Union (EU) which will be used to finance the acquisition of 80 low-floor LRVs from Pesa Bydgoszcz.

PESA Bydgoszcz is offering a new design of emu to Polish long-distance operator PKP Intercity in its bid for a contract to supply and maintain 20 trains for Jelenia Góra - Lodz - Warsaw - Bialystok/Lublin and Lublin – Warsaw – Katowice – Bielsko Biala services.

POLISH State Railways' (PKP) freight business PKP Cargo is to be part-privatised through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Warsaw stock exchange.

THE first two of 35 six-car Siemens Inspiro metro trains entered passenger service in Warsaw on October 6.